Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Thrillho Exactly, and it does just that very well. Perhaps critically, I found the bits that you do play to be interesting, well designed and well implemented so it’s not like they bogged things down. If you played The Artful Escape, there’s also something to be said for how much of a leap forward this was in terms of ambition. If we were to vote today, it’d be my game of the year, which is pretty surprising to me.

Just finished off my first playthrough on Dragon Age 2 and definitely wasn’t as bad as I remember… it was actually fairly good. Just have to do a mainline playthrough against the mages and then ann extra intro as the third class as I’ll be platinum.

@psmr I’ve maybe mentioned before, but the first two Dragon Age games are one of those weird gaming holes in my play history. The genre is among my favorites but the timing never worked out for me when the games were released. Besides a brief few hours with DA1 and either a demo, or was it watching some footage of DA2 🤔 (gosh, my recollection is so muddled once you go back before PS4 in my memory banks), regardless, I never got into them until DA: Inquisition, which I really enjoyed but never finished despite spending dozens and dozens of hours in. Veilguard is on my shortlist to play at some point (the shortlist that includes 100+ games 😂) so maybe I’ll get back to the series soon. It’s just been a strange misfire in my gaming.

What’s next up on the schedule, boss? Per my recollection you’ve recently done some fantasy RPG, Golfing, Metroidvania, and military FP shooting lately. Time for some horror or platforming or tactical sim or maybe Soulslike… what’s your pleasure? Time to dip back into the PS5 Pro enhanced library yet?

@Th3solution I’m looking forward to getting to Inquisition actually… I’ve had it for ages but wanted to clear Origins and 2 first. And it might not be too late for you to fill that gap if the oft-mooted PS3 back-compat is achieved with PS6. Sure they’ve aged but you kinda forget about that after an hour or two. They’re not overly long too, which helps when returning to previous generations.

… and that’s some fine recollecting you did there. 😉 So I’m gonna finish the last playthrough of DA2, then one real simple trophy on World War Z: Aftermath and next? I’m probably gonna play Mass Effect 3… but I’m considering postponing that and going after the Dead Space 2 plat. Either way, I plan on playing both of them in the next few months. You raise a good point though about playing another PS5 Pro enhanced game. Got nothing in the immediate future but it’s worth mulling over for sure.

@psmr I wondered if Death Stranding 2 was calling out to you yet. I think you’d been waiting for just the right moment since it’s a favorite, so do you reckon it will be an impulse decision for that one?

@Th3solution it is calling out a bit not gonna lie… it’s such a huge time commitment though (I think the plat-chase is around 200 hours), that I want to make sure that I have a load of free time to fully immerse myself in it. As much as it pains me to admit, it’ll probably be a couple of years before I get to it.

@psmr
Nice, well done on the first pass of DA2. I never got far with that game as it just didn’t gel with me plus I found it very difficult, I did enjoy DA:I though.
As for PS5 Pro, I’m itching to play Cyberpunk. I was going to start Lords of the Fallen but it seems overly complicated so I ditched that although I might buy the Deluxe Upgrade which is currently on sale and then use the dlc class to hopefully make my life easier although it probably won’t make much difference in the grand scheme of things.